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This is possibly the biggest news to hit last week. The New York Times reported that in June of 2017, President Trump ordered the firing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, but backed off after White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II threatened to resign rather than carry out the President’s bidding.

The story published by The Times on Jan. 25 explains President Trump considered conflicts of interest that would prevent Mueller from approaching the investigation without bias. Mueller had previously resigned a membership to a Trump Golf Course, worked for the law firm representing Jared Kushner, and was interviewed for the position of FBI director the day before his appointment as special counsel.

The fallout that followed the story on Thursday has been huge. The reaction from the President’s most loyal news network has been particularly disturbing.

Hannity puckers up for more butt-kissing as he mentions Trump’s “rock star welcome” in Davos, Switzerland for an economic forum and MSNBC’s “downplay” of that “rock star welcome.”

The show contains over 12 minutes of discussion over the Strzok text messages and the FISA memo.

When Hannity brings in correspondent Ed Henry to finally discuss The Times article, he shows skepticism over the “anonymous sources.” Henry talks about this for two minutes before Hannity brings in two other correspondents to talk about… those text messages. Really. When they get to the Mueller firing story, he mentions “phony, anonymous sourcing.” And then his guests go back to the text messages and the secret FBI group conspiring to keep Clinton free of charge and take down Trump.

The rest of the Jan. 26 episode is more of the same. “Fake News CNN,” #ReleaseTheMemo and complaining about text messages and emails.

What did I learn from watching three episodes of Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News? First off, I never want to do that again. But more importantly, if there’s anyone to blame for spinning a false narrative, it’s definitely Fox News and the majority of Trump’s base. When most other major news outlets break a story, that’s not “fake news,” that’s just “the news.” Hannity and his pals at Fox are so terrified of the truth that they tiptoe around it, spinning false narratives of fake news and witch hunts.